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JODI GODFREY

My husband Tim and I came up with the idea for Tales of Cloth while sitting around the fire one evening. We’d moved to the country and worked for an organisation with a focus on mentoring young people. We’d both been in academia in a past life – a skill not really useful in the country! We were brainstorming ways we could supplement our income while possibly also offering employment in town.

This particular night, while stitching an English Paper Pieced quilt, I suddenly asked Tim, “Could you cut English Paper Pieces with a laser cutter?” And Tim, an electronic engineer, sat straight up, excited at the possibility of building his own laser! The idea stuck and within about a week, we’d written a

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